Re: A snapshot of the LuxAsm developments

From: Johannes Kroll (junk-mailbox_at_gmx.de)
Date: 12/20/04


Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:16:53 +0100

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:40:15 GMT
"Beth" <BethStone21@hotmail.NOSPICEDHAM.com> wrote:

> To be honest, looking at Linux, the system itself is reasonably good...the
> problems it has are more to do with the programmers it attracts...like, for
> instance, I asked on a Linux newsgroup about the "int 80h" interface (just
> in case someone has already made some kind of "table" or something with the
> latest, full information about it...because if they have, that saves us a
> lot of effort making one of our own for LuxAsm :)...and, yeah, a C / C++
> coder appears and says "NEVER use the syscalls directly...always use
> libc!"...I'm surprised I also wasn't told off for using assembly language
> too ("ALWAYS use C!!" ;)...

Are you still looking for that? Here is a pretty good list:
http://www.lxhp.in-berlin.de/lhpsyscal.html

I also found another one:
http://www.linuxassembly.org/syscall.html
But it seems far less complete.